Position in chronology
SAA 01 143. Straw for the Glazing of Bricks (ABL 1180)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 1(Beginning destroyed) (1) [On the ... th, after ......] we had finished the (city) wall, [we] got [busy], gathered men for the straw that the king had given to us in Halahhu, and went to carry it over. (8) The men working in the ditch, [of] a single prefect and 125 in number, have [neither] delivered straw of their own nor are they carrying that of Halahhu. By means of what will they glaze bricks for their work-quota tomorrow? What does the king my lord say? (r 1) As to the replacement for the dead concerning which the king told the magnates: "Provide the replacement!" — nobody has given us…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 1 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x x x x x x] GAL / [x x] ⸢BÀD⸣ [nu]-⸢ug-da⸣-mir / [Á-ni nu]-⸢ta⸣-me-di LÚv.ERIM-MEŠ / [ina] UGU ŠE.IN.NU <$x x$> / ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL ina KUR.ḫa-la-ḫi / [id]-di-na-na-ši-ni / [ni]-ik-ti-ri-ik ni-ta-la-ka / [ni]-za-bi-la LÚv.ERIM-MEŠ / [ša] ina ḫi-ri-ti / [ša] 01-en LÚv.GAR-ni 01 me 25 / [la] ŠE.IN.NU ša ra*-me-ni-šú-nu / [i]-di-nu la ša KUR.ḫa-la-ḫi / ⸢i*⸣-za-bi-lu-ni / i—ši-a-ri ina ŠÀ mi-i-ni /…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Sargon II, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 1, 1987). Letter from a governor or high official to the king of Assyria. ORACC text P334776.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West (State Archives of Assyria, 1), 1987. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2009-11, as part of the AHRC-funded research project “Mechanisms of Communication in an Ancient Empire: The Correspondence between the King of Assyria and his Magnates in the 8th Century BC” (AH/F016581/1; University College London) directed by Karen Radner. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P334776/..
Translation excerpted from Parpola, S. 1987. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West. SAA 1. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa01/P334776/.
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